In a wonderful, wonderful demonstration of how the Internet Personal Essay Economy can go awry, xoJane ran a personal essay by a lady named Brenna Phares, about how she recovered from her painful breakup with the use of a “breakup box.” Turns out Brenna works for the company she was writing about, which she didn’t…

Ann Friedman makes a strong argument for the term "lady" in The New Republic: it "encapsulates the fundamental mutability of modern feminism" and occupies the middle ground between being a girl and a woman. (Props to Britney.) Moreover:

Now that Cat Marnell has left her post as beauty editor at xoJane—where, as the site's "beauty and health director" she infamously chronicled the intimate and more fucked-up details of her life like her drug abuse, mental health, and strained relationships—readers are wondering: What Will Happen Next? After all, the…

Nancy Keenan has been the President of the country's oldest abortion rights organization since 2004 and yesterday, she announced that at the end of the year, she'll be stepping down. At 60, she's concerned that the sun is setting on her generation of women's rights leaders, that it's time to hand the reins over to the…

Teri Hatcher's new website, Get Hatched (a chick's guide to life) is up and running. In a video clip, she claims the site "is not the Teri Hatcher reality show." No — it's more like a self-help book on uppers.